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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders: 'We're Going to Win New Hampshire'
The underdog is starting to bark.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders boldly predicted Saturday that he would beat Democratic presidential rival and heavy favorite Hillary Clinton in the 2016 New Hampshire primary, expected to be in early February.
Let me tell you a secret: were going to win New Hampshire, Sanders told upwards of 1,000 supporters gathered in Keene, N.H., the Keene Sentinel reported.
Sanders, 73, has drawn large crowds as he campaigns across Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton, meanwhile, has continued her low-key "listening tour" ahead of a June 13 campaign event at New York's Roosevelt Island that is expected to kick off a more outgoing phase of her quest for the White House.
A Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm poll in May found Clinton leading Sanders in New Hampshire by a margin of 62-18 percent, but Sanders' support has grown as he continues to deliver a populist message on the campaign trail.
In my view, the issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time, and it is the great political issue of our time, Sanders said Saturday.
While Sanders didn't mention Clinton by name in his stump speech, he was asked by a reporter afterwards whether the former secretary of state's lack of a concrete position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential trade deal involving the U.S. and much of the Pacific Rim, was hurting her campaign. On Sanders' Senate website he calls the TPP "disastrous."
"Call her up and ask her," Sanders said. "I'm against it."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-07/bernie-sanders-we-re-going-to-win-new-hampshire-
peacebird
(14,195 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)NH and Iowa are "retail politics" states - one-to-one and small groups. Bernie is superb at retail politics because he doesn't try to be anything other than himself. That works in those states. It will give him a huge boost.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)I'm thinking an NH win is not the best indicator for a DEM nom win.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)(Skipping years with an incumbent Democratic president)
Kerry won it in 2004, went on to be the nominee.
Gore won it in 2000, went on to be the nominee.
Tsongas won it in 1992, campaign imploded, Bill Clinton was the nominee.
Dukakis won it in 1988, went on to be the nominee.
Heart won it in 1984, campaign imploded, Mondale was the nominee.
Carter won it in 1976, went on to be the nominee.
Muskie won it in 1972, lost the nomination
JFK won it in 1960, went on to be the nominee.
Kefauver won it in 1952 and 1956, lost the nomination both times.
Before that, the rules were such that no one "won" between 1920 and 1948.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)What that the year they released What About Love?
zentrum
(9,865 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)overwhelming victory.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)it has F all to do with the drubbing Hillary is likely to get in New Hampshire, but carry on with your bouncy self.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Feel the Bern!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)So happy for his lifetime of work reaching the American people!